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zDb2 should provide option to not write RACF statistics without coding any Db2 Signon Exit (DSN3SSGN)

Banca d'Italia, for many good reasons, wants to get rid of any user written assembler exit, including DSN3SSGN .They use DNS3SSGN only with the specific purpose to not collect RACF statistics and so they have modified it by adding STAT=NO on each ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cloud environment Maintenance - Optional Waves

In the Monthly Cloud Environment maintenance that occurs on the 3rd Saturday of each month, have an option to choose a different time frame. ie. from 1AM to 9AM UTC or from 2PM to 10PM
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bring back Host Rank to enable filtering out unreliable sources

Host Rank allowed for filtering out sources with a low score. Without it, offensive, inappropriate, and fake sources creep into the News query results. The current mechanism of submitting individual source complaints is ineffective.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Leverage capabilities of Machine Learning to CDC to enhance the product and make it smart

There are different features in CDC that are usually configured manually based on customer's environment. For example: Refresh (Standard, Differential, External etc), Fast Apply. There are also other environment related configurations like size of...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

MOVETB feature (FL 508) with DROP tablespace option enabled

The MOVETB option(with FL 508) has a shortcoming of not providing an option of DROP tablespace for the one which has moved ALL the tables from the source tablespace. Currently, we are forced to DROP the source TS separately outside of the generate...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

When grid values are shown as percentages. Compute variances by subtracting the percentage rather than underlying number.

We would like to be able to use the base functionality of showing values of a cube view as percentages and subsequently correctly calculate a variance between those percentages.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Performance issues when trying to open menu-window by right clicking

We noticed that trying to open the menu-window by right clicking for example on the table shown in attached pictures, the system takes a long time to show the menu-window. Looking for the root cause, during our tests we monitored the performances ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Creation Date as a 'Due Date' field argument (with offset) for Workflows

Currently if workflow instances are started and stopped (to do required tasks such as workflow version upgrades/releases) the due dates are all reset. Currently you can only use 'Workflow Start Date' which would reset or a field. You cannot lock i...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Update CDC as to being able to replicate multibyte enabled columns without doing conversion when contained data type is single byte

RE : Case TS003082492 - December 2019 We’re replicating new files which now contains DBCS-Open data type columns. However, the contained data is single byte characters only. CDC/IIDR insist on handling these columns as Unicode and converting data,...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration